• Rcpp and C++
• ggplot2
• Using spatial data
• Classification with individual and ensemble trees
• Interactive web graphics with R and googleVis
• Cloud computing
• …

• written by Hadley Wickham
• implementation of the grammar of graphics
• combines the advantages of both base and lattice graphics

• written by Dirk Eddelbuettel and Romain François
• seamless R and C++ integration
  • supports many R data types
  • provides typical R functions and C++ classes

Why use C++ integration in R?

Sometimes, R code is just not fast enough…

• Loops that cannot be vectorized because subsequent iterations depend on previous ones

# Count interations

for (i in 1:10) {
  if (i == 1) {
    nIter <- i
  } else {
    nIter <- nIter + 1  
  }
}

• Recursive function calls

# Fibonacci sequence

fibonacci <- function(x) {
  if (x < 2) {
    return(x)
  } else {
    return(fibonacci(x-1) + fibonacci(x-2))
  }
}

sapply(1:10, fibonacci)

##  [1]  1  1  2  3  5  8 13 21 34 55

An example: the sum function

x <- 1:10000

sum(x)

## [1] 50005000

An example: the sum function

sumR <- function(x) {
  
  total <- 0
  for (i in 1:length(x)) {
    total <- total + x[i]
  }
  
  return(total)
}

sumR(x)

## [1] 50005000

An example: the sum function

library(microbenchmark)

microbenchmark(sum(x), sumR(x), sumC(x), times = 1000L)

## Unit: microseconds
##     expr      min        lq       mean    median        uq       max neval
##   sum(x)    9.636    9.9020   12.56125   12.1105   14.8710   184.714  1000
##  sumR(x) 3763.070 4019.4675 4391.46257 4155.5130 4576.7380 40767.704  1000
##  sumC(x)   20.820   22.3835   31.41349   31.9950   36.8205   284.987  1000

With invited talks by

• Thomas Lumley (R Core Team)
• Adrian Baddeley (spatstat)
• Romain François (Rcpp)
• …

(see http://user2015.math.aau.dk/)

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